Hunger Games Trilogy
ISBN: 9780439023481 | 0439023483
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Scholastic Press
Pub. Date: 10/1/2008
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
The acclaimed author of the "New York Times"-bestselling Underland Chronicles series delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in a stunning novel set in a future with unsettling parallels ... MORE
The acclaimed author of the "New York Times"-bestselling Underland Chronicles series delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in a stunning novel set in a future with unsettling parallels ... MORE
| From The Hunger Games | |
| The moment the anthem ends, we are taken into custody | |
| I don't mean we're handcuffed or anything, but a group of Peacekeepers marches us through the front door of the Justice Building | |
| Maybe tributes have tried to escape in the past | |
| I've never seen that happen though | |
| Once inside, I'm conducted to a room and left alone | |
| It's the richest place I've ever been i... MORE | |
| I know velvet because my mother has a dress with a collar made of the stuff | |
| When I sit on the couch, I can't help running my fingers over the fabric repeatedly | |
| It helps to calm me as I try to prepare for the next hour | |
| The time allotted for the tributes to say good-bye to their loved ones | |
| I cannot afford to get upset, to leave this room with puffy eyes and a red nose | |
| Crying is not an option | |
| There will be more cameras at the train station | |
| My sister and my mother come first | |
| I reach out to Prim and she climbs on my lap, her arms around my neck, head on my shoulder, just like she did when she was a toddler | |
| My mother sits beside me and wraps her arms around us | |
| For a few minutes, we say nothing | |
| Then I start telling them all the things they must remember to do, now that I will not be there to do them for them | |
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Suzanne Collins' debut novel, Gregor the Overlander, the first book in The Underland Chronicles, received wide praise both in the United States and abroad. The series has been a New York Times bestseller and received numerous accolades. Also a writer for children's television, Suzanne lives with her family in Connecticut.
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